Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1887-07-01
FOREIGN.

Rumored that King Milan or SerVla Is
about TO abdicate.
Slight earthquake shocks were felt in
Smyrna the other day.
a famine Is now prevailing on the Gill
ella plain in Asia minor.
A plot to blow up the queen on jubilee
day has been unearthed.
There has been failure of crops in Asia
Minor and famine is imminent.
The police of Berlin prohibit the circu-
lation Of the Chicago Workmen's Gazette.
The Russian railway toward India is
completed TO "A point twenty miles south
of Chardjui
Owing TO the failure of the crops In A STA
Minor several districts are threatened
with famine.
An amendment to repeal the Canadian
local option law was voted down in the
Canadian house of commons
waterspout burst near the quays at
Toulouse France submerging a wash
house in which were eight per ons, all OF
whom were drowned.
a mob set fire 90 the Jewish quarter OF
the town of Duna Szerdahely, in Hun
gary. The quarter was almost entirely
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homeless
Thirty Thousand children gathered in
HYDE Park, London. the day after the
jubilee celebra ton to honor the queen.
Her majesty was present, and also the
Prince and Princess of Wales
King Milan of Servia is visiting Vienna
as guest of the Emperor. the latter hav-
ing intimated his readiness to receive him.
An important political outcome is expect
ed TO result from the conference of the
sovereigns.
Mgr. Personnel and Mgr Guildi left
Rome for Ireland recently on a mission
intrusted to them by the Pope. They were
instructed to make personal observations
and report on the political and social posi-
ton of the Irish people.
Continual rumbling noises make them
selves heard in Arequipa Peru, and the
inhabitants believe they will shortly expe-
Renee a severe earthquake. These noises
were particularly loud at the time the
earthquake, occurred in Arizona.
Fire broke out in a tenement house in
London the other morning. 4 number OF
persons were terribly injured in their ef-
forts TO escape from the burning building
and several who attempted to leap from
top stories TO the ground fell backward
into the flames and persisted.
At the sale of Lord Crawford's library
in London magazine, otherwise Guten-
Der bible, the earliest book printed with
movable metal types, in the original oak
boards, was put up at $3.50 and sold for
-, go 1yndale's Ientateuch in black
letter, brought E225, and Tyndale's new
testament, in black letter, 1919.
The Prince of Wales, his family and a
score of members of foreign royal families
attended private exhibition of the Wild
West show in London the other morning.
They all rode in the Deadwood coach. the
Princess of Wales sitting on the box, Col
Cody driving Grand Duke Michael of
Russia and Prince George of Wales rode
horses belonging to the company and
made some good shots a break neck speed.
France and Russia have notified the
Porte that war will be declared against
Turkey if the terms OF the Egyptian con
vention are ratified. Sir Henry Drum
mond VOL e, the special envoy To Turkey
in reference 10 Egypt, declines to modify
the terms of the convention. The ratih-
cation of the instrument has been post
poned by mutual agreement until after
the Bairm festival The situation OF af.
fairs is disquieting.